School is starting, or has started, all over the state of Alabama and our children’s schools are no safer. During the summer, and the GOP primary, the governor of Alabama released a plan to make schools safer called the “Alabama Sentry Program.” At best, this plan could be called a step in the right direction.
State Rep. Will Ainsworth asked the governor to call a special session on this matter and called Governor Kay Ivey’s plan a “good first step.”
Others, myself included, thought that this was just a political move during her primary. I pointed out, “The idea that a mass-shooter will be stopped by a locked-up gun is almost comical”.
But it gets worse: it appears that not one school district actually did any of this training. Jackson County’s school board has administrators that say they want to participate, but there has been no vote by the school board. Just last week, the governor and the Alabama superintendent issued guidance and justification for the governor’s program.
To put this bluntly, Alabama’s leaders did nothing on this issue and they probably won’t until the next time some of our kids are killed in a school shooting.
@TheDaleJackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a conservative talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN
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